Intelligence, critical thinking and reasoning skills, hard work and positive attitude will take you and your teams a long way. However, in today's work environment, those criteria alone are not enough to cross the finish line.
What's missing?
Often, in addition to any technical skills, missing is the critical ability to connect and communicate with others effectively.
Leadership ability has everything to do with how the leader relates to others and the quality and texture of those relations. The higher up you go in an organization, the less important technical skills become and the more critical interpersonal skills become. The amazing news is that interpersonal skills can be enhanced, learned and strengthened! Connecting within and between others, gives members a sense of contribution, purpose and belonging that result in higher engagement, retention, and produce home-run, star-studded creative results.
The importance of using one's emotional intelligence (EQ) skills is not relegated only to the executive ranks. EQ skills support the open, safe and transformative environment for a staff and teams alike. Yet, these highly critical skills are often not highlighted, discussed, nurtured in business teams. Why? Short answer is that most of us don't know where or how to begin. And that's one of the reasons coaching can be so instructive and supportive.
Understanding what emotional intelligence is and how it can help us is a starting point. EQ embraces and draws from other branches of behavioral, emotional and communications theories. By developing their emotional intelligence a team's capacity for repeated success grows.
Five EQ 'domains' have been identified:
1. Knowing one's emotions
2. Managing one's emotions
3. Motivating one's self - relates to being able to regulate one's feelings
4. Recognizing and understanding other people's emotions
5. Managing one's relationships with others
Added benefits of this practice:
The process and outcomes of emotional intelligence development also contain many elements known to reduce stress for individuals and organizations by:
In our work together, I'll provide training to grow and support a team's awareness, balance, focus, harmony and happiness-in short enhance their emotional intelligence - all of which is a step toward increased wholeness, creativity, productivity, reason for doing and being and job joy!